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In hindsight, I should've added a few more..

Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.

I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it's a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it'd be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS... but it's Google, and given the CLOUD Act...

Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it's Apple), but that's a separate category.

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[โ€“] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

This is true, I would say it is currently the most ethical smartphone you can buy today, though. If you get it with e.os installed it is also more privacy focussed as well but as a heads up e.os doesn't work with some banking apps.